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Show LUlVr.KSAL, 'I-1- Plii.i.'U.. SALT L Ariel . 41 n i Jii:f Roosevelt Will Again Host M Men Tournament Four Stakes To Compete In Two Classes Beginning Feb. 1st; All-StTeams Will Be Selected Three supervisors of .the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District have' been authorized to attend the annual national convention of the Soil' Conservation Districts to be held in Boston Feb. 6 to 9. Supervisors who plan to attend the convention are Ray S. Brown, Montwel; 'Marvin F. Smith, Vernal and Harold Dudley, Randlett. The other two district supervisors, Wm. C. Foy, Duchesne and Forrest Hancock, My ton, reported they are unable to attend the convention. The supervisors decided at the January 9th meeting of the board of directors to travel to Boston via airplane, and return via Wash-- 1 ington, fi. C. by train and automobile. Will Resign One of the five supervisors' for the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District has indicated that he must resign from this conservation post. He is Forrest Hancock of Myton( Pleasant Valley), who sold his farm and is moving to Grand Junction. Mr. Hancock has been of serving as secretary-treasure- r this group since' April, 1953. Wm. C., Foy, district supervisor at Duchesne, was1 appointed to succeed Mr. Hancock as Three Employees At SCS Offices Leave Positions Three employees of the Soil Conservation Service have left the local offices at Roosevelt and Duchesne to accept other positions. So far the vacancies have not been filled. Keith B. Campbell, who has been employed by the Soil Conservation Service in Roosevelt for the past two years; left his position last Friday' to transfer to the Indian Service at Ft. Duchesne. In his new location he will be a soil scientist and will work on the soil and moisture program, Another SCS employee, Kelly Redmond, who has been employed as an engineer aid for the past several years', also left last Friday to accept private employment at the Price Trading Company in Price. Gilbert Horrocks' who has been conservation aid at the Duchesne SCS office for the' past ten years, left January 1 to continue studies at the University of Utah where he plans to major in engineering. He will continue to work part time for the Soil Conservation Services through their office at Murray. Jack Stevenson, engineer at Roosevelt, and John Strang, unit Conservationist at Duchesne, are at Alta attending a training session for skiing and other snow traveling. s Kids Start Fire A fire started by the carelessness of children on the property of Raymon Ellis and' the American Legion resulted in the destruction of sheds and other buildings. Loss is estimated at approximately $500. The fire took place about 10 days ago, and damage was not covered by insurance. PATIENTS ENTER CENTER FIRST WEEK Three' patients checked in at the Duchesne Health Center the first week after the Jan. 16 opening. They are: Mrs. Ernest Wright, Mrs. J. A, Halladay and Mrs. Taylor Tidwell. THREE Alan Frank, JOINS FIRM former KUTV production manager, has joined the advertising and public relations firm of Robert M. Thomas & Associates as full partner." VOLUME 26 - NUMBER 4 DUCHESNE, DUCHESNE COUNTY, 55 Health Center Donations ar Supervisors To Attend SCO Meet In Boston Uintah Basle Roosevelt stake will again be host to the annual Region 14, subdivision C basketball tournament which isf held to decide entries in M Men tournathe ments scheduled for late in February and early in March. According to George Hacking, of C supervisor which includes Uintah, Moon Lake, Duchesne and Roosevelt stakes, four teams fronj the Senior M Men division will compete, and in the Junior division eight teams from the four stakes will compete. Uintah, Roosevelt and Duchesne are sending teams in the Senior class, and a fourth entry will be decided Monday night, team Jan. 30, when the runner-u- p from Duchesne' stake will meet the second place team in the Roosevelt stake to determine the fourth team. Myton is the winner from Roosevelt stake and Ballard is the runner-u- p team and they will meet team Duchesne second the ... place . . , Equal $,372.43 Total cash donations to the Duchesne Health Center during 1955 amounted to $1,372.43, reports Merlin I. Bishop, treasurer for this community - sponsored maternity-emergenc- y hospital. Donors were the Presbyterian Church, Myton; Duchesne Mothers Club; Duchesne Lions Club; Salt Lake Pipeline Co.; Duchesne County;, Duchesne Business and Professional Womens Club; Duchesne American Legion; Duchesne American Legion Auxiliary Dairy. The $1,372.43 donation figure included about $150 of donations by individuals, also, Mr. Bishop said'. In addition to the $1,372.43 amount, projects' sponsored by the Duchesne Health Center board of directors brought in more than g $1,500. Several small projects sponsored by the board netted $45'9.31; and $1,081 was shown as profit from the annual Moon Lake stake failed to or- banquet sponsored by the board ganize Senior groups for compe- last year. and consequently wont Individual membership sales in tition, have a team in the older class. the Duchesne Health Center for Because Roosevelt and Duchesne J955 amounted to $859, the treasthan urer said. stakes had more activity teams are Uintah, their runner-u- p Dennis Davis of Provo was a playing for the right to enter the tourney as the fourth team. Sunday visitor at the Wm- - Peat-ro- ss All Stakes Entered home. The Peatrosses spent All four stakes carried on a Friday at the home of Mr. and very successful' Junior division Mrs. Clarence Baum in Strawberry. program during the seas'on and each will send its first and second tourplace teams into the play-of- f tourney. The Junior nament this year is being taken to Logan where it will be' played in the US AC fieldhous'e. The Senior tournament again will be at Provo in the BYU fieldhouse. According to Mr. Hacking, a special committee composed of activity counselors and athletic directors of the four stakes constitute the committee in charge of arrangements for the' tournament that will be held at Union High d School, beginning next UTAH, THURSDAY, E JANUARY 26, $3.00 PER YEAR 1956 Major Oil Companies Offer Record Rid Of $1, 411,360.00 For Ute Tribe Indian Lands Tribal Council Will Study Bids Before Awarding Leases; May Start Active Drilling Soon n The Ute Indian Tribal Council is now in the process of accepting or rejecting bids made Tuesday of the week by major oil companies who offered' a $1,411,360 for rights to drill on allotted tribal lands. The desired oil drilling lands extend Altamont Dumps d Union, First record-breakin- Time In History BASIN LEAGUE fund-raisin- . UTAHNS JOIN BANKS Signing papers that bring eight branch banks of The Commercial Bank of Utah into the First Security System are: left to right, George S. Eccles, president, First Security Bank of Utah and First Security Corporation; P. P. Thomas, president, and Max Thomas, executive vice president. The Commercial Bank of Utah. Rani; President Explains Renefits Of Recent Merger h Wednes-(Continue- on page 2) Dairy Breeders To Meet On Ground Hog Day Members of the Duchesne unit the Cache Valley Breeding Association will meet in their annual meeting at the home of Charles Edwards in Roosevelt on Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. Election of officers for the ensuing year will be a part of the business agenda. Three speakers are on the program. RuI'on Os mond, representing the Cache Valley Breeding Assn.; Robert Murdock, Duchesne county agent, and Danniel Dennis, Roosevelt veterinary, will be' the speakers. Mr. Edwards, local inseminator, will give his annual report. of 4-1- High In Denver 6-- 0 6-- Personnel Will 32-2- Remain Same In Both Banks Due to circumstances beyond anyones control, the news of last weeks merger of The Commercial Bank of Utah with the' First SeThe Duchesne County Livestock Judging Team was the top curity Bank of Utah was an team in the sheep and wool judg- nounced in Salt . Lake City only ing in the Junior Division at the hours after this paper had gone National Western Livestock show to press. It is felt that this imat Denver last week. The team portant financial transaction is members are Lloyd Lewis, Jerry still of considerable news to our Merkley, Gail Larsen and Kent readers because of its probable Robison. Fourteen Junior teams effect in our comfrom nine Western states were munity. President P. P. Thomas has anrepresented in this division. The Duchesne team, winners of nounced that he expects no major the 1955 Utah State Fair, placed changes in banking policy to be first in the judging of Hampshire applied to our territory- - However, ewes, second in the judging of due to the additional and splendid The first quarter drivers liSouthdown fat lambs, and third facilities of the First Security syscense examination schedule for in the judging of Columbia ewes. tem, customers in this area will Duchesne County has been postAs a team, the boys tied for be offered trust services, much Uinsecond place in the Angus cattle greater emphasis will be placed ed by the examiner for the remainder Basin. The of tah division. Their score was 195 out on consumer credit financing, largFebof a possible 200. They placed er loans can be made to those de- the schedule for January, is listed as fourth in the Hereford bull judg- serving, and' local bank officers ruary and March follows: ing, fourth in. the fat hogs, sixth will have at their call, the service from 10 a.m, to Duchesne of specially trained experts in in the judging of breeding hogs. 3 ' p.m. at the courthouse, Feb. Three-Wa- y of Tie For First every phase banking. 16; March 1, 15', 29. 2, The merger of The Commercial Gail Larsen of Arcadia, was in March 30. Altamont a three-watie for first place' in Bank of Utah, with eight branch Roosevelt at the City Building banks and of total assets $2Q,000,-00the for livestock competition with First Security is the from 10 a m, to 4 p.m., Jan. 27, judging reasons; and Gail and 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, Kent tied for first place in the largest bank merger in Utahs his- 31; Feb., 3, 7, 28;. March, 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23 The makes First fat steer judging. merger tory. and 27. S. Murdock, county ag- - Puritys total assets substantially ricultural agent, accompanied the larger than any other bank system trip. Enroute in eleven Rocky Mountain states. boys on the to the livestock show, the group First Securitys: assets, with the stopped at the Colorado Agricul- new merger, will total $462,184,-031.8tural College at Ft. Collins and according to January' 1 participated in livestock judging figures. there on Jan. 12. No Personnel Changes (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Dage 2) 4-- full-pag- This Weeks Schedule Uintah at Duchesne Tabiona at Altamont Union Bye It took five years for Altamont to turn the trick, but they did it last Friday. The' Longhorns won a close basketball contest from the Cougars of Union in a game that was a thriller all the way. Unions loss' gave the Longhorns a tie with the Cougars for second place and gave the Utes from Vernal the lead' with two wins and no losses. Altamont took off in the early seconds of play and before the Cougars knew what was going on, lead.-Thethe Longhorns had a with Jackie Bailey hitting three from the foul line and Larry Ross splitting the strings from outside, the Cougars closed the The first quarter endgap to ed and the half found the Longhorns out front Eaton Makes Record Uintahs Valoy Eaton, who a few weeks ago was suffering from an illness that might have sidelined him for the season, apparently has recovered. This fact is evidenced by the 33 points he scored against little Tabby on the latters floor. The Utes really s poured it on Coach Mickey boys as they routed the to take over top Tigers spot and remain the team to beat for the title. (Continued on Page 3) 12-1- 2, Business Firms 1 Stock Judging Of Roosevelt Team Hated To Give Baby Gifts On the back page of the Uintah Basin Record this week will e be found a announcing a generous amount of gifts to be awarded the first baby to arrive via the newly opened Duchesne Health Center. . . All that is necessary is that .the parents of the baby, when it arrives, come to Roosevelt and claim the many and varied gifts. The Roosevelt Merchants are happy to make this gesture toward Duchesne City and its citizens and compliment them on the fine, new hospital now in operation there. We commend Duchesne on this step forward and wish them success in their new venture, stated W. S. Bill Murdock, president of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce. CU'e-ton- 68-2- Drivers License Schedule For County Is Posted Nature Lovers Ready To y 0, Endorse River Project Echo Deletion Brings Enemy To Wests Camp There was some good news in Washington last Monday as two major victories were won by backers of the Upper Colorado River project. First, the powerful Council of Conservationists shifted its stand and came out in favor of the big river development bill. The conservation group has previously opposed the bill. the United States Secondly, Supreme Court turned down a bid from California for a rehearing on the court decision which exempted Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico from, a water suit pending between California and Arizona. most significant action The Monday was the backing of the Upper Colorado bill by the conservationist council, which represents every major conservation group in the nation. This group, which had' stirred up nationwide opposition to the measure, fought the bill when it dam at a proposed included Echo Park in the Dinosaur National' Monument. With the Echo Park project deleted, the conservationist group its opposition. withdrew The Supreme Court decision was also hailed as a forward step since the bill could have been tied had the Upper up indefinitely Basin states been tied in to the lower basin water fight. Mrs. Grace Hale Is Re-elect- 0 ed D.U.P. President Mrs. Grace Hale has been reelected captain of the Theodore of the Utah Camp, Daughters Pioneers. This is her second two-yeterm of office. Other officers elected for a two-yea- r term are; Mrs. Fern Merrel'l, Mrs.. Pearletta 1st Mrs. Workman, 2nd Maxine Burdick, secretary-treasureMrs. Myrtle L. Wilcken, historian; Mrs. Leila Wardle, regis- ar vice-captai- vice-captai- r; George C. Kohl Is President Of Medical Group George C. Kohl of Duchesne has been president of the Duchesne Medical CenteT, Inc. term. for a one-yeOther officers elected by the stockholders of this corporation The Weather In Duchesne City For the' week beginning Jan. 10, the maximum temperature was 56 degrees and the minimum 13 degrees. There was no precipitation, according to a report from L. C. Winslow, operator of the official weather station. The weather beginning Jan. 17: What About Our Building Program? Since the completion of the modeling and new addition to the schools last summer Altamont little progress has been in evidence on the proposed remodeling and additions to the Roosevelt Junior High, Roosevelt Elementary, Tabiona and Duchesne Higl Schools', all of which were included in the special building fund apThe Norman Jenkins family is propriation of the 1955 Legislataking up residence in the Carlos ture. Many people are wondering Marsing home this week. They just what has happened to these spent Wednesday visiting in Roos- projects and how soon some actievelt and Red Wash Canyon. vity on these might be evidenced. re- 70 PER COPY We shall try here to throw a little light on the subject. Actually there has been a lot of activity on these projects, but it has all' been around a table. There has not been a school board meeting since the appropriations were made that some problems relating to these projects have not been a part of the agenda. In addition, two special board meetings were devoted entirely to the building program. Then what has been the delay? As you are aware the money for these building projects comes entirely from state funds. Because of this all aspects of the building program must meet with the official approval of the State Board of Education and the State Building Board. The following steps for example, must be followed in the planning stages of each project: 1 Authorization from both state .agencies to employ an architect. 2 Approval of the architect em- Continued on Page S g from Whiterocks west to Bluebell. Tuesdays bidding was the largest such total of bonus bids in the history of the Uintah Basin since oil was discovered at Ashley Creek in September of 1948. The U. S. Geological Survey will make a study of the bids and make recommendations to the Tribal leaders before bids are accepted or rejected. Price per acre, however, was down from the last public auction held in 1954. The size of the acreage involved 64,276 acres in tribal and 1,199 in allotted lands accounted for the sizeable total. Standard Oil Company of California alone offered a total of on some 20 tracts of tribal lands; This firm won the highest bid, incidentally, on all but one of those tracts. Carter Oil Co. wrested Tract No. 26 from Stan-ca- l with a bid of $5.17 an acre for the 2,549.36 acre tract. There were 27 tracts of tribal lands and 26 parcels of alloted lands up for bonus bids Tuesday. A group of five firms, tarter. Sinclair,, Continental, Superior bid and Phillips Petroleum, jointly and successfully on four tribal tracts and bn all the alloted lands. Individual companies in this joint bid, however, offered competition on other tribal tracts. Other firms which entered the Richfield Oil bidding included Corp. of California, Skelly Oil and Gas Co., and the' Texas Co. There were no bids on two of the 27 tribal tracts. Standard of California, which was the firm requesting the tribal lands be put up for bonus' bid, did not bid on the allotted lands. The latter acreages were included later through an amendment to the bid opening proceedings Tuesday. The total amount bid on the tribal acreages came to $1,252,-151.on basis of figures supInplied by the Uintah-Oura- y dian Agency. Total bid on the allotted lands was $159,208.80. Additionally, the firms pledged themselves to payment of $1.25 an acre on both tribal and allotted lands each year. Initial rental payments will hike monies to be collected for the Utes by about 01 $78,000, Highest single bid per acre was made by Standard of California. It was on Tribal Tract No. 16 of 2,560 acres at $51.69 an acre, or a total of $132,326.40. Duchesne City Budget Is Proposed At 25,370.00 26 Mill Levy merchant licenses; $1,200, $2,500, fines; allocation; and sewer connections $1,600, maintenance; $8,700 water sales. $1,600 liquor Raise Money From Tax To, Estimated disbursements for the city government in Duchesne for 1956 amount to $25,370, reports Mrs. Hildur W. Johnstun, city clerk. Receipts for this period are estimated to be $29,760. Tentative budget allocations for the various budgetary' funds are listed by Mrs. Johnstun, with the 1955 amounts budgeted shown in the parentheses, as follows: General, $4,085 ($5,272); park and cemetery, $520 ($430); street lights $1,000 ($1,195); streets and $500 ($670);, public sidewalks, safety, $5,975 ($3,922); fire department, $385 ($220); bond sinking and interest, $1,750 ($4,173); sewer, $1,000 ($1,275); water revenue. $7,955 ($7,910); roads, $1,800 ($1,666); airport; $400 ($455). Receipts Are $4,655 Anticipated receipts are $4,655 in the general fund; $520 in park and cemetery; $1,000 street lights; $500, streets and sidewalks; public safety; $4,100, bond sinking and interest; $1,600, sewer; $8,775, water revenue; $1,800, road $450, airport. Chief anticipated' receipts to these various funds' are $9,835, to come from a total of 26 mills levied against real and personal property for 1956; $1,800, class B road allocation from the state; $6,-36- 0, Livestock Assn. Holds First 56 Meet Today The annual meeting of the Duchesne Livestock Association was held at 2 p.m. Jan.- 26 at the Duchesne county courthouse, reports Clifton C. Mickelson, secretary. A board of six directors wa r elected at this meeting for a term. From these directors elected, the 44 members of the association will choose a presiand a secretary-tdent, a one-yea- reasurer. Incumbent officers are Wm. C. Mr. Duchesne, president; Mickelson, secretary - treasurer; Howard Cowan, Jerry Merkl'ey, Duchesne; James Lemon, loka, and Wanless Shields, Arcadia, directors. is This livestock association formed of the permittee's' who graze cattle on seven different range allotments on the Duchesne Ranger District of the Ashley National Forest. Election results and program topics will be released for publication next week. Foy, |